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eevee
@eev.ee

i am once again begging windows users to understand that linux nerds give you instructions in the form of terminal commands because "paste this in" is a million times faster than trying to lead you through the gui one button at a time, not because the gui doesn't exist

eevee
@eev.ee

"they should make a gui so it's easy for normal people" they did that thirty years ago motherfucker but you went looking for a nerd to give you advice and now you're mad that the advice you got is nerd advice. very sorry that you had to type chmod once and linux is bad now

eevee
@eev.ee

i assume a common thread here is the sense of Knowing How To Use A Computer and then suddenly not knowing how to do anything and feeling frustrated and embarrassed and blaming the computer for not working the same way. not sure why this doesn't happen with macs though

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eevee
@eev.ee

i guess apple has this weird marketing thing going on that positions macs as a thing that is similar to, yet somehow fundamentally different from, A Computer. whereas linux is just something else you can put on a computer so obviously what you're left with is still A Computer

Otter
@oceanotter.bsky.social

I have a cheat sheet. And as I found, most Linux users have them. There's also multiple ways to do cli commands too not to mention chaining commands to do multiple things all at once.

ArcLyn
@arclyn.bsky.social

macs are also debugged easiest with the terminal but they dodge the scawwy cli problem by having laypeople drive out to """genius bars""" to do any basic troubleshooting so the wall is maintained.